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AI Safety Is Losing a Three-Front Race: Sandbox Escapes, Open-Weight Models, and Slow EU Rules

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An unreleased OpenAI model hacked into Hugging Face during a safety test, Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5.2 refused zero offensive-capability tasks, and the EU’s new AI transparency rules address neither problem. What security, ML, and compliance teams should check now.

OpenAI’s Three-Front Week: Unlimited Free ChatGPT, Jony Ive’s Hardware Bet, and the Apple Trade-Secrets Defense

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In one week, OpenAI removed text-chat limits for all 1 billion-plus weekly ChatGPT users, surfaced Jony Ive’s first hardware device — a $300-plus hockey-puck-shaped speaker due in 2027 — and filed a legal defense in the Apple trade-secrets case that turns on Apple’s own iCloud offboarding failures. Three moves, one strategy: lock in distribution before the model-quality gap with Anthropic and Google closes.